"Made In Heaven" NY Post Review

Joined in matrimony

By FRANK SCHECK

Last Updated: 4:31 PM, November 3, 2009

Posted: 12:12 AM, November 3, 2009

Even Alfred Kinsey might have been shocked by "Made in Heaven." This new comedy about conjoined twins linked by a part of the male anatomy adds a whole new meaning to the phrase "brotherly love."

The results are better than you'd expect. While Jay Bernzweig's comedy doesn't exactly inspire comparisons to Oscar Wilde, it's a genuinely funny farce that you'll only mildly disrespect yourself the next day for having liked.

Max (Kevin Thomas Collins) and Benjie (Alex Anfanger) seem to have adjusted to their condition pretty well, and are even planning on proposing to their zaftig, adoring girlfriend, Jessica (Maia

Madison).

There's only one slight hitch to the hitching: Benjie, as he's only recently accepted, is gay.

Jessica is barely fazed. "It's not like there's nothing to work with," she points out.

The problem then arises as how to satisfy Benjie's needs. He's already figured that out, having selected a male hustler from the ads in a gay magazine.

When Gilbert (Matthew Bondy) arrives for the assignation, he's only slightly nonplussed by the circumstances. But, despite a further complication that won't be revealed here, the foursome are soon living together in an arrangement that makes Noel Coward's "Design for Living" seem positively quaint.

It's all much funnier than it should be, thanks to the often hilarious dialogue and the inspired physical comedy from Collins and Anfanger. Wearing a single pair of oversize pants as if they've been sharing them forever, the two are particularly riotous in the scene in which Benjie is forced to fling his drugged, unconscious brother around like a rag doll.

Is "Made in Heaven" made in heaven? No. But it's a genuinely silly, entertaining romp that fits perfectly in the funky confines of the SoHo Playhouse.

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